It’s snowing in Craig, and it can’t seem to stop. Every time we look out the window, another bout of whiteout conditions. A little background: I live in a rainforest. Prince of Wales Island, my home, has many microclimates, and Craig is probably the warmest and rainiest of them all. So why is it compulsively […]
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Termination dust
Walking with my son, aka Younger Brother, on this mid-November day, I was startled to see snow on the top of Sunnahae Mountain. I immediately felt cold! Younger Brother kindly pointed out that the cold sensation might have been augmented by any number of other factors, including the wintery-flavored wind, my lack of a hat, […]
The weather gods have a sense of humor
Well, sometimes it does snow in Southeast Alaska, despite what I have been saying these many years. I went out this morning to dig out my mother-in-law’s van, scraping wet-cement-style snow, until my nephew, as kind as he is strong, came from down the street to help. I was scraping as loudly as possible, so […]